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Those "B&S" RC2-era kits had nothing to do with where the kits were manufactured.

Some Ford GT pics. Nice detail for a snapper. Note...this is a prototype of sorts, the Heritage color scheme might not match what comes in the box, and I believe the production kits will include the black pinstriping separating the colors on the 1:1

The top set of caps are from the '63 AMT annual. The '62 annual depicted a standard Monterey with a plainer-looking hubcap, not the mid-year S-55 as pictured in the above add.

Here are some larger pics of the display model, built box-stock.

I hope you build it.

Finally...one of my own projects...finished! Doing kits for other guys has left very little time for my own stuff. I pulled this Lincoln from the to-do pile last winter. Being a simple curbside I figured I had a fighting chance of finishing it within a year. Paint is Tamiya TS-42 Light Gunmetal; not the sort of color I would normally choose for a '61-vintage subject, but when I spotted a 1:1 on the 'net in a similar color I was sold. I ditched the wide-whites for some more elegant-looking thin-line whitewalls which were just being introduced in the 1961 model year. This kit was also a test-bed for my Molotow chrome markers. I used the markers on the interior chrome, body scripts and the wheel-lip moldings They won't replace BMF entirely, but in some instances they came in real handy.

Yup. Those parts have been there since 66. Nice accessories for the early AMT kits.

According to some reference I have, the bezels were body-colored only on very early-production '56 Vettes, but changed to chrome soon after. I seem to recall reading about paint adhesion issues. There are a few factory photos out there of painted-bezel 56's.

Here's some pics. The feature looks convincing enough, but the gaps between the headlight doors and body are out of scale, and once assembled I found they're pretty difficult to operate. Not a feature I miss on the reissues.

I don't think the production kits have landed yet, but they should be on shelves very soon. This kit had a few minor glitches typical of MPC kits of the period (the door hinges in particular might require some tweaking/test-fitting) but the finished kit looks pretty good. I have no idea what they're doing for decals, but it wouldn't surprise me to see the red/blue/gold hood birds like they included in the 1/25 kit. Note-the glass is all clear. If you notice the tinted T-tops, that was done with Tamiya smoke.

Thanks, Casey; The box-art kit actually sat on my bench for a few weeks while the guys at Round2 searched for the honeycomb wheel insert. Nice to have parts in the box that enable you to build a "regular" T/A as opposed to the one-color-scheme-only anniversary version. I'm hoping they include decals in different color schemes like they did with the 1/25 version. The hood bird shown on the box was applied (or photoshopped) after the fact.

It's actually the '64 Cutlass annual kit with the modified body as used in the funny car version, minus the funny car bits.

Here's a slightly better pic

Sorry Ace; I don't know about a release date. I'm guessing it would be too early to predict a date for this one right now because they're working on some retooling.

The lower right set looks like the AMT 66 Riviera stock turbine caps minus the separate knock-offs. They're pretty much identical to the late 60's-early 70's Chev turbine caps as Christopher stated; I actually used a set on a '71 Impala

Sorry, I guess my post wasn't clear enough. MPC 872 will be a reissue of the '75 annual as pictured in Casey's original post. The stock version's parts are all present and accounted for except the plastic tires which will be replaced by vinyl tires. A couple of bits had to be retooled for the custom version as well.

This is indeed the correct box art. A pic of a built stock version. This one (built from an original '76 annual) wears the original (plastic) annual tires. The upcoming release will have different (vinyl) stock tires.

The only issue I'm aware of was an incorrect hood in the original-issue GTX hardtop (pic below). The kit contained a '68 Road Runner hood. I don't know when Ertl corrected the mistake. I'm pretty sure the Pro Street and convertible kits had the correct hood

Here's the parts layout.

Novus #2 works for me

They both look like good restoration candidates....although I hope you keep the blue one as-is. It's a well-preserved example of the way we all did them back then. I'm sure you already know this,,,,the Ertl reissue of the Skylark Modified Stocker has a few extra parts in the box left over from the annual, including a set of the stock five spoke wheels. They're the only 1/25 scale Special/Skylark/Century five spokes out there (yes, non-Buick folks, the Wildcat/Riv wheels are different).

Right you are, Snake. I love the way AMT molded the pinstripe just high enough that you can scrape the paint away for a nice fine white pinstripe. It almost didn't work on this one due to the crazed body, and how deep I had to go smoothing it out. The "BUICK" lettering on the hood and decklid are just about gone. ,

Nice to see this thread back from the dead. I glue bomb (more like a "lacquer-bomb") I just finished. This one looked like an easy restoration when i got it, but under that thick Testors yellow enamel was a severely crazed body that had been painted with green automotive lacquer (I should have taken pics). I almost gave up on it, but I figured I might as well finish what I started...and I can't just go to the LHS and pick up another '66 Skylark.

The chrome wheel faces shown on the Gee-T box are on the Serpent test shots, and will be included in the kit as optional pieces along with a few other bits not used on the built-up I posted. The old Serpent instruction sheet I used (photocopy-no idea re it's origin) specified the chrome faces, not the knock-offs I installed. The knock-offs were used as they wanted the build to match the Serpent box art.

The Petty Road Runner was reputed to be the ex-MPC NASCAR series kit (which I believe was actually a '72). Ertl had killed off the MPC brand years earlier, so unless it was intended as a Buyers Choice-type issue it would have worn the AMT label. I believe the Satco Chev pickup was to be a '66 based on the tooling for the original AMT '66 promo that had recently been discovered at that time. Apparently it had been unearthed somewhere by someone outside of AMT/Ertl, similar to the '34 Ford pickup discovery. The tooling is still out there....